Christopher Alexander

Background

Alexander, Christopher was born on October 4, 1936 in Vienna, Austria.

Education

Bachelor in Architecture, Cambridge University, England. Master of Arts in Mathematics, Cambridge University, England. Doctor of Philosophy in Architecture, Harvard University.

Career

Research assistant, Joint Center for Urban Studies of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard, 1959-1960; instructor, Harvard University, 1960-1961; research associate, Center for Cognitive Studies, Harvard University, 1960-1961; consultant village development planning, Government of Gujarat, India, 1962; consultant, researcher, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Civil Engineering Systems Laboratory, 1960-1963; from assistant professor to full professor architecture, University of California, Berkeley, since 1963; director, Center for Environmental Structure, Berkeley, since 1967. Advisor or consultant architect Govts. of Israel, Mexico, Spain, other national and city goverments and organizations internationally. Visiting professor or lecturer universities worldwide.

Invited artist at Forum Design, Linz, Austria, 1982. Chief architect The Eishin School, Tokyo, 1980-1982. Advisor to Nordic Council of Ministers, 1985.

Achievements

Christopher Alexander has been listed as a notable architecture educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure) A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure)

book
- Community and Privacy: Toward a New Architcture of Humanism
  (Important book on city planning tries to reconcile human ...)
- Community and privacy: Toward a New Architecture of Humanism
  (Humanities, Sociology, Art, Humanism)
- A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure)

Membership

Member Swedish Royal Academy.

Connections

Married; two children.

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